Leadership

In 2003 founded Group-IB — one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating cyber crimes.

Ilya is one of the 27 prominent independent commissioners for the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a member of cybercrime expert committees in the Council of Europe and the OSCE. In 2010 Ilya became the first Russian national to win the Digital Crimes Consortium award for his contribution to international exchange of experience in the field of computer forensics.

In 2015-2017, Ilya was awarded with the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Award three times in a row in the «Information Security for Business» category.

In 2016, he was featured in the global list of Forbes 30 Under 30 among the brightest young businessmen in «Enterprise Tech» category.

Since 2017, he is an associate professor of the Bauman Technical University at the Department of Information Security, the department he graduated with honors in 2009.

In 2018, Ilya made it to the Russian Reporter and Russia Beyond the Headlines prominent people of the year lists.

In 2019, he has been named a winner of the Nemaly Business Prize in the category «Innovative Breakthrough» and was listed among the top 100 young economic leaders by the French "Institut Choiseul".

Since co-founding Group-IB in 2003, he has been a prominent voice leading the company toward becoming the go-to expert on Russian and international cybercrime. His team successfully conducted the first cyber investigations in Russia. They have identified and helped detain cyber criminals who targeted public and private companies worldwide.

In 2017 Dmitry became Chief Technology Officer at Group-IB. In his new role, Dmitry is responsible for all aspects of the company’s technological development and transformation.

In 2016, he became a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group on Internet Security.

In 2015, Dmitry was listed by Business Insider as one of the top 7 professionals behind influential security companies.

In 2013, Dmitry Volkov became a member of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group aimed at conducting a comprehensive study on the problem of global cybercrime.